Bakery Industry

Case Study On Eco Friendly Bakery Bird Bath Bakery - USA. The Bird Bath Bakery is a prime example of eco – friendly bakeries. The promoters have installed equipments which run on wind mill energy ( Electrical energy generated through wind mill is used to run the mixers, ovens, slicers etc ). Finished goods are transported in neighborhood through eco friendly bi cycles Customers are encouraged and incentives given if they arrive on bicycles, skates and other mode of transport thus...

Grupo Bimbo goes for expansion spree with take over of Sara Lee Business in Spain and Portugal A report. "Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V. has agreed to purchase Sara Lee Corp.’s fresh bakery business in Spain and Portugal for about €115 million ($154 million). “This acquisition underscores our international growth strategy and bolsters our vision of becoming a global leader in the baking industry,” said Daniel Servitje, chief executive officer of Grupo Bimbo. “It will also give us the...

Rusk s have been now under the lense with big bakery players. Only branded rusk are being manufactured by Britannia under the brand premium rusk. Bisk farm has now entered the rusk segment with media blitz and advertisement promoting its rusk as Ruskit. Biskfarm a regional power brand in biscuit segment especially in eastern sector of India. Rusk is pre dominatly liked by elderly people and workers for source of break fast alternative and people have liking of dunking bread into tea. It...

Sunfeast the power brand of ITC which has been fast challenging the established players like Parle and Britannia and new entrants such as United Biscuits (Mcvities) and Krafts ( oreo ) has launched an innovative and appealing variant called Dream Cream. It offers biscuit connoisseurs with options like dual cream sandwiched between shells. Variants it would be putting on the block are chocolate cream and strawberry and vanila. ITC has been targeting the premium end of biscuit market the...

All food manufacturing units are now targeting zero waste and zero discharge from their units including major bakeries across the globe. Waste generated from bakeries includes floor sweepings, dough,packaging waste. baked product waste etc. Best practices in waste management includes recycling, reuse and reduction in waste generation.Thus reducing the land filling taxes and cost saving s through waste reduction. Its good news that UB one of leading bakery manufacturer based in UK has...

In series of parameters used for major ingredients in bakery industry. we would explore parameters for flour. Moisture Total Ash Acid Insoluble Wheat germ oil acidity Alcoholic acidity Gluten % Water absorption % ( WAP) Sedimentation value ( SV ) Ageging ( Millers end ) Maltose Value Granularity Falling No Alfa toxins Heavy Metals Each parameter is important with different values or standards for different bakery products. Hence a professional baker or bakery needs to evaluate flour...

Modern trade has now occupied significant space in bakery products. Major brands are getting good amount of sales from these outlets. Future group which has India's biggest retail outfits like Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar has tied up with Disneys to launch cookies for Kids. Cookies for kids is a niche market which is being tried out by major players like Britannia, Parle and ITC. Future group has tied with another bakery major Unibic to manufacture these animal shaped cookies from Disney...

One of the major ingredients in bakery product is fat. Fat could be used as palm oil, palmolien, hydrogenated vegetable oil and others To use fat and oils following parameters are to be checked it varies from product to product and countries to countries. moisture percentage peroxide value butryo refractometer reading or refractive index Iodine value saponification value oelic acid unsaponification matter Flash Point argemone oil - negative anti toxidant TBHQ lead ( Pb ) www.bakerybazar.com

Recent developments in state of California, US has an immediate impact on cola companies as well as other food companies related to ingredient Caramel. Caramel is used in most of food manufacturing and beverages industry for coloring. CSPI ( Centre for science in public interest ) of California has recently issued results confirming the link between a chemical 4- MI ( methylimidazole ) found caramel in cola products from Coke and Pepsi and cancer. Unsafe limits have been found in these cola...

Recent sale of Unibic Australia to consortium of private investors would not have impact to Indian Unibic Unit confirmed by Mr Nikhil Sen. He confirmed while stating that Unibic Australia does not hold any stakes in this Indian firm. Unibic India is leading cookies manufacturer with around 8 % of market share of cookies business dominated by other major player like Britannia, Parle, ITC, United biscuits and many other regional players. Unibic India promoters are Lazard private equity, Light...

Indian Fmcg would have to implement standard pack sizes which were offloaded since 2004 where fmcg manufacturers were allowed to have non standard weights such as 18 g, 36g, 89g etc. which has made consumers confused while relating and calculating the price comparisons with quantity of different brands. Maximum impact would be on confectionery, soaps, coffee and edible oil manufacturers companies which would have impact would be Britannia,Parle, ITC, Hindustan lever, Nestle and...

With budget 2012-13 tabled in parliament, Indian bakery industry would have impact on cost which would be passed on to the consumers with increase in prices, smaller bakeries would struggle to survive due rise in cost of raw material, transportation etc.Items such as bread, biscuit, cakes, cookies, rusk makes the majority of baked items in India. Following has been the main factors impacting bakery industry Positive Income tax relief to income upto 2.0 lakh for the middle class. Provision...

Conveyors are life line of bakeries, these conveyors performs numerous functions right from material handling to, transfer, process, loading and unloading. Conveyors in bakery could be of two basic categories web conveyors or metallic conveyors Major metallic conveyors are Chain conveyor Basic conveyor made of simplex, duplex, triplex chains as per the load on it. These are simplest form of material handling conveyors in bakeries where moulds are being transferred from different section s...

Indian bread plants in majority are labour dependent with most of the process done manually its high time that manufacturers think of automating the whole proces or in parts to eliminate dependence on labour eliminate waste have consistent quality to eliminate human errors increase productivity safety In ingredient section automatic feeding to mixer with help of bulk handling, load cell based weigh hoppers and pneumatic or screw conveyors ( flour, fat, chemicals and sugar ) Auto greasing of...

One of the major ingredients in bakery product is fat. Fat could be used as palm oil, palmolien, hydrogenated vegetable oil and others To use fat and oils following parameters are to be checked it varies from product to product and countries to countries. moisture percentage peroxide value butryo refractometer reading or refractive index Iodine value saponification value oelic acid unsaponification matter Flash Point argemone oil - negative lead ( Pb ) www.bakerybazar.com